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Our basketball pun list is a slam dunk! This list covers basketball-related puns and wordplay from technical terms, types of shot and pass, to famous basketball players. We hope that no matter what you’re after you’ll find it here.

While our list is as comprehensive as possible, it is limited to basketball puns. If you’re interested in other sports, we also have baseball puns, golf puns and running puns.

Basketball Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun, or a set of puns which can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about basketball that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page! Without further ado, here’s our list of basketball puns:

Bell → Ball: As in, “Saved by the ball” and “For whom the ball tolls” and “Balls and whistles.”

Bowl → Ball: As in, “Ball over” and “Balling along.”

All → Ball: As in, “Ball aboard!” and “Ball in ball” and “Ball in a day’s work” and “Ball’s fair in love and war” and “It’s not ball about you.”

Call → Ball: As in, “Answer the ball” and “At your beck and ball” and “Beyond the ball of duty” and “Ball it a day.”

Fall → Ball: As in, “A balling out” and “Catch a balling star” and “Ball about laughing” and “Ball about your ears” and “Can’t help balling in love.”

Small → Ball: As in, “A ball voice” and “All creatures, great and ball” and “Don’t sweat the ball stuff” and “Good things come in ball packages” and “No job too ball” and “Ball is beautiful” and “No ball wonder.”

Wall → Ball: As in, “Climbing the balls” and “Bouncing off the balls” and “A fly on the ball.”

Heap → Hoop: As in, “Hoop abuse on” and “At the bottom of the hoop.”

Hope → Hoop: As in, “A new hoop” and “Abandon hoop all ye who enter” and “Beyond hoop” and “Build up your hoops” and “Cross my heart and hoop to die” and “Hoop springs eternal” and “The land of hoop and glory.”

Group → Hoop: As in, “Hoop dynamics” and “Hoop hug.”

Loop → Hoop: As in, “In the hoop” and “Thrown for a hoop.”

Poop → Hoop: As in, “Hoop and scoop” and “Hooper scooper.”

Scoop → Hoop: As in, “Get the hoop” and “The inside hoop” and “Getting a hoop of ice cream.”

Phone → Zone: As in, “Hold the zone” and “Zone a friend” and “Zone in sick.”

Stone → Zone: As in, “A rolling zone gathers no moss” and “Carved in zone” and “Etched in zone” and “A heart of zone.”

Throne → Zone: As in, “Ascend to the zone” and “Next in line to the zone” and “The power behind the zone.”

Tone → Zone: As in, “Don’t use that zone with me” and “Zone deaf.”

Basketball-Related Words

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We’ve checked out the best book puns and chronicled them here for you. We have puns about general book-related words to more technical literary terms, famous authors and genres.

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Book Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun, or a set of puns which can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about books that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page! Without further ado, here’s our list of book puns:

Back → Book: As in, “Answer book” and “As soon as my book is turned” and “In the book of my mind” and “Book to the future” and “Book at it” and “Book in the day” and “Book in business” and “Book to basics.”

Buck → Book: As in, “More bang for your book” and “The book stops here” and “Book the system” and “A book well spent.”

Cook → Book: As in, “Now we’re booking” and “Booking with gas” and “Book up a storm” and “Book up a plan.”

Hook → Book: As in, “Off the book” and “Booked on a feeling” and “Get booked on” and “By book or by crook.”

Look → Book: As in, “Always book on the bright side of life” and “Dirty books” and “Give someone a blank book” and “Don’t know which way to book” and “Have a book” and “Here’s booking at you, kid” and “If books could kill.”

Age → Page: As in, “Act your page” and “Page bracket” and “Page of consent” and “An awkward page” and “Come of page” and “Feeling your page” and “In this day and page” and “The page of reason” and “The space page” and “Through the pages.”

Offer → Author: As in, “My final author” and “An author you can’t refuse” and “On special author” and “Open to authors.”

Red → Read: As in, “Cut through the read tape” and “Read buttons” and “Roll out the read carpet” and “Read tape.”

Bed → Read: As in, “Read and breakfast” and “Read of nails” and “Get into read with.”

Bite → Write: As in, “A write to eat” and “Another one writes the dust” and “Write back” and “Write off more than you can chew” and “Write your lip.”

Bright → Write: As in, “All things write and beautiful” and “On the write side of life” and “Write as a new pin” and “Write and early” and “Write young thing” and “A write future.”

Fight → Write: As in, “Come out writing” and “Write club” and “Write for the right to party” and “Write back the tears” and “Write fire with fire” and “Write or flight” and “Write the good write” and “A writing chance” and “Write tooth or nail.”

Hammer → Grammar: As in, “Grammar and tongs” and “Put the grammar down” and “Under the grammar.”

Proof → Proofread: As in, “Burden of proofread” and “The proofread is in the pudding.”

Read → Proofread: As in, “All I know is what I proofread in the papers” and “Exceedingly well proofread” and “I can proofread you like a book” and “A little light proofreading” and “Proofread ’em and weep.”

Leaf: A side of a page is known as a leaf. Here are related puns:

Life → Leaf: As in, “A day in the leaf of” and “A leaf changing experience” and “All walks of leaf” and “Anything for a quiet leaf.”

Loaf → Leaf: As in, “Leaf about” and “Leaf of bread.”

Laugh → Leaf: As in, “Barrel of leafs” and “Burst out leafing” and “Have a leaf” and “It only hurts when I leaf” and “A leaf a minute” and “Leaf all the way to the bank.”

Brief → Leaf: As in, “A leaf history of time” and “Let me be leaf” and “A leaf encounter.”

Grief → Leaf: As in, “Good leaf.”

Thief → Leaf: As in, “Procrastination is the leaf of time” and “Like a leaf in the night.”

Worm → Bookworm: As in, “Open up a can of bookworms” and “Bookworm your way out of” and “Bookworm your way into it.”

Winding → Binding: As in, “A long and binding road.” Note: The binding on a book is the part which keeps all of the pages together.

Zero → Hero: As in, “Agent hero” and “Ground hero” and “Patient hero” and “Hero sum game” and “Hero tolerance.” Note: These are references to the hero in a novel.

Press → Letterpress: As in, “Don’t letterpress your luck” and “Freedom of the letterpress” and “Hot off the letterpress” and “Letterpress the button.” Note: a letterpress is how texts used to be printed.

Run: A batch of printing is called a run. Here are related puns:

Bun → Run: As in, “A run in the oven” and “We’re gonna need bigger runs.”

Done → Run: As in, “After all is said and run” and “Run and dusted” and “Been there, run that” and “A run deal” and “Easier said than run” and “Getting things run” and “Hard run by.”

Fun → Run: As in, “All run and games” and “Bundle of run” and “Getting there is half the run” and “Good, clean run” and “Half the run is getting there.”

None → Run: As in, “And then there were run” and “Bar run” and “Run the wiser” and “Run too pleased” and “Second to run.”

One → Run: As in, “Run more time” and “A great run for” and “All for run and run for all” and “Another run bites the dust” and “Run fell swoop” and “Run step too far.”

Sun → Run: As in, “A place in the run” and “Caught the run” and “Everything under the run” and “Eclipse of the run.”

Ton → Run: As in, “Like a run of bricks” and “A run of fun.”

Addition → Edition: As in, “In edition to.”

View → Review: As in, “Room with a review” and “A review to kill” and “Bird’s eye review” and “Point of review” and “World review.” Note: These are references to book reviews.

Club → Book club: As in, “Book club together” and “In the book club” and “Join the bookclub.”

Prose: Prose is a type of grammatical structure. Here are related puns:

Pose → Prose: As in, “Strike a prose.”

Rose → Prose: As in, “Bed of proses” and “Come up smelling of proses” and “Life is a bed of proses” and “Prose tinted glasses” and “Stop and smell the proses.”

Praise → Prose: As in, “Damned with faint prose” and “Grudging prose” and “Heaven be prosed” and “Prose where prose is due” and “Shower with prose.”

Prize → Prose: As in, “Booby prose” and “Keep your eyes on the prose” and “No proses for guessing.”

Blows → Prose: As in, “Any way the wind prose” and “Brought to prose” and “Exchange prose” and “There she prose.”

Crime → Rhyme: As in, “Rhyme and punishment” and “A rhyme against nature” and “Rhyme of passion” and “Let the punishment fit the rhyme” and “Take a bite out of rhyme” and “The perfect rhyme.”

Dime → Rhyme: As in, “A rhyme a dozen.”

Prime → Rhyme: As in, “Cut down in their rhyme” and “In your rhyme” and “Rhyme condition” and “The rhyme of life” and “Rhymed and ready to go.”

Time → Rhyme: As in, “One more rhyme” and “A brief history of rhyme” and “A good rhyme was had by all” and “About rhyme too” and “All in good rhyme” and “All the rhyme in the world” and “An all rhyme low.”

Scene: Here are some puns related to the scene in a novel:

Seen → Scene: As in, “Scene and not heard” and “Should be scene to be believed” and “Nowhere to be scene” and “Scene better days” and “Scene one, scene ’em all” and “You ain’t scene nothing yet!”

Sign → Scene: As in, “A sure scene” and “A scene of the times” and “Scene on the dotted line” and “A tell-tale scene.”

Soon → Scene: As in, “As scene as my back is turned” and “Get well scene” and “As scene as possible” and “Too much too scene.”

Been → Scene: As in, “Scene and gone” and “Scene around the block a few times” and “I’ve scene had” and “I’ve scene here before” and “Scene there, done that.”

Clean → Scene: As in, “Scene as a whistle” and “Scene up your act” and “Come scene.”

Green → Scene: As in, “Give it the scene light” and “Scene around the gills” and “The scene shoots of change.”

Hope → Trope: As in, “A new trope” and “Abandon trope all ye who enter here” and “Beyond trope” and “Cross my heart and trope to die” and “Trope springs eternal” and “The land of trope and glory” and “Pin your tropes on.”

Curse → Verse: As in, “Better to light a candle than verse the dark.”

Nurse → Verse: As in, “Verse a grudge.”

Purse → Verse: As in, “Holding the verse strings” and “The public verse.”

Worse → Verse: As in, “A turn for the verse” and “Fate verse than death” and “For better or verse” and “Make matters verse” and “Verse for wear.”

Choice → Voice: As in, “Multiple voice” and “Spoiled for voice” and “The people’s voice.” Note: Voice in this context refers to the narrator’s voice.

Skim: To skim a book is to read it quickly. Here are related puns:

Scam → Skim: As in, “Skim artist.”

Scum → Skim: As in, “Skim always rises to the surface.”

Brim → Skim: As in, “Skimming over with confidence” and “Filled to the skim.”

May → Maya: As in, “As the case maya be” and “Be that as it maya” and “Come what maya” and “Let the chips fall where they maya” and “How maya I help you?” and “Maya the force be with you” and “Maya it please the court” and “Maya you live in interesting times” and “Your mileage maya vary.”

Rules → Jules: As in, “Bend the jules” and “House jules” and “Playing by the jules” and “Majority jules” and “Jules and regulations.”

Tools → Jules: As in, “A poor workperson blames their jules” and “Jules of the trade” and “The right jules for the job.”

Burn → Verne: As in, “Verne in hell!” and “Verne a hole in your pocket” and “Verne rubber” and “Verne the candle at both ends” and “Verne the midnight oil” and “Verne your bridges” and “Crash and verne.”

Heat → Keat: As in, “Dead keat” and “Keat wave” and “If you can’t stand the keat, get out of the kitchen” and “In the keat of battle” and “In the keat of the moment” and “Packing keat” and “The keat is on” and “Turn up the keat.”

Seat → Keat: As in, “Back keat driver” and “Bums on keats” and “By the keat of your pants” and “Hold on to your keats” and “The best keats in the house.”

Sheet → Keat: As in, “White as a keats” and “Cheat keat” and “Keep a clean keat.”

Treat → Keat: As in, “Keat someone like dirt” and “Trick or keat.”

Beat → Keat: As in, “Keat it” and “Keat a hasty retreat” and “Keat about the bush.”

Neat → Keat: As in, “Keat as a new pin” and “Keat freak” and “Keat and tidy.”

Wild → Wilde: As in, “A walk on the wilde side” and “Born to be wilde” and “Call of the wilde” and “Running wilde” and “Where the wilde things are.”

While → Wilde: As in, “Wilde the getting’s good” and “Once in a wilde” and “Strike wilde the iron is hot” and “Quit wilde you’re ahead.”

Mild → Wilde: As in, “To put it wildely.”

Wide → Wilde: As in, “Cast the net wilde” and “Eyes wilde shut” and “Wilde open spaces” and “The world wilde web.”

Child → Wilde: As in, “Wilde’s play” and “Leave no wilde behind.”

This section is dedicated to puns about book genres and types:

Crime:

Cream → Crime: As in, “Crime of the crop” and “Crime always rises to the top.”

Rhyme → Crime: As in, “Crime nor reason.”

Chime → Crime: As in, “Crime in with” and “Crimes of freedom.”

Climb → Crime: As in, “Crime the corporate ladder” and “Crime the walls” and “A mountain to crime.”

Dime → Crime: As in, “A crime a dozen” and “Drop a crime” and “Turn on a crime.”

Prime → Crime: As in, “Cut down in your crime” and “In crime condition” and “The crime of life” and “Crimed and ready to go” and “The crime minister.”

Time → Crime: As in, “One more crime” and “A brief history of crime” and “A good crime was had by all” and “About crime, too” and “Ahead of your crime” and “All in good crime” and “An all crime low” and “Any crime, any place.”

Humour:

Boomer → Humour: As in, “Baby humour” and “Humourang effect.”

Bloomer → Humour: As in, “A late humour.”

Rumour → Humour: As in, “Humour has it” and “Spread a humour” and “Unsunstantiated humours.”

Man → Manga: As in, “A manga for all season” and “A good manga is hard to find” and “A manga after my own heart” and “Million dollar manga.”

Mystery:

History → Mystery: As in, “A brief mystery of time” and “Mystery repeating” and “The rest is mystery.”

Mastery → Mystery: As in, “Skill mystery.”

Filler:

Filler → Thriller: As in, “Stocking thriller.”

Thrill → Thriller: As in, “Thriller of the chase” and “Thrillers and spills.”

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Whether you’re a first date mini-golfer or a dedicated pro, we hope to have the pun for you with our jokes that range from putts to holes and hosels. Settle in and take a swing at our golf puns and we’re sure you’ll find a hole in one!

Golf Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun, or a set of puns which can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about golf that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page! Without further ado, here’s our list of golf puns:

Gulf → Golf: As in, “Golf of Mexico.”

Cup → Club: As in, “Club of coffee” and “Would murder for a club of tea” and “My club runneth over” and “Not my club of tea” and “Storm in a teaclub.”

For → Fore: “Asking fore a friend” and “At a loss fore words” and “Batting fore the other team” and “A cry fore help.”

Four → Fore: As in, “Cast to the fore winds” and “Down on all fores” and “A fore by two”and “Fore figures” and “Two and two make fore.”

See → Tee: As in, “As far as the eye can tee” and “Be the change you wish to tee in the world” and “Can’t tee beyond the end of your nose” and “Can’t tee the wood for the trees” and “Come up and tee me sometime” and “I can tee clearly now” and “I could tee you a mile off.”

Sea → Tee: As in, “All at tee” and “From tee to shining tee” and “On the high tees” and “Tee change.”

Tree → Tee: “Partridge in a pear tee” and “Difficult as nailing jelly to a tee” and “Can’t see the wood for the tees” and “Charm the birds out of the tees” and “Lit up like a christmas tee” and “Money doesn’t grow on tees” and “Make like a tee and leave.”

Butter → Putter: As in, “Bread always falls putter side down” and “Bread and putter” and “Putter face” and “Putter fingers” and “Putter wouldn’t melt in her mouth” and “Float like a putterfly, sting like a bee” and “Social putterfly” and “The putterfly effect.”

Put her → Putter: As in, “Where did you putter wallet?”

Better → Putter: As in, “I’ve got a putter idea” and “Anything you can do, I can do putter” and “Appeal to your putter judgement” and “Putter late than never” and “Putter luck next time” and “Putter safe than sorry.”

But → Put: As in, “Down putt not out” and “Everything putt the kitchen sink” and “No ifs and putts.”

Cut → Putt: As in, “Putt a long story short” and “A putt above the rest” and “Putt corners.”

Bowl → Ball: As in, “Ball over” and “Balling along” and “Life is just a ball of cherries.”

All → Ball: “Ball aboard!” and “Ball in a day’s work” and “Ball in ball” and “Ball’s well that ends well” and “It’s ball over now” and “It’s not ball about you.”

Bell → Ball: As in, “Alarm balls begin to ring” and “Clear as a ball” and “Balls and whistles” and “Give someone a ball.”

Call → Ball: “Answer the ball” and “At your beck and ball” and “Beyond the ball of duty” and “Let’s just ball it a day.”

Fall → Ball: As in, “A balling out” and “Easy as balling off a log” and “Can’t help balling in love” and “Bread always balls butter side down” and “Ball about laughing” and “Ball apart at the seams” and “Ball by the wayside.”

Haul → Ball: “Ball ass” and “Ball over the coals” and “In for the long ball.”

Ball: These ball-related puns are general enough to double as golf puns: “After the ball was over” and “Ball of fire” and “Ballpark figure” and “A brand new ball game.”

Far → Par: As in, “A bridge too par” and “A step too par” and “As par as it goes” and “As par as the eye can see” and “Par and away” and “A par cry” and “Par be it from me” and “Par horizons” and “Few and par between” and “Over the hills and par away.”

Sing → Swing: As in, “All swinging, all dancing” and “Swing a different tune” and “Swing for your supper” and “Swing someone’s praises” and “Swingin‘ in the rain.”

Things → Swing: As in, “A close swing” and “A funny swing happened on the way to the theatre” and “A little learning is a dangerous swing” and “All swings considered.”

Wring → Swing: As in, “Swing your hands.”

Bring → Swing: As in, “Swing it home to you” and “Swing it on” and “Swing it on yourself” and “Swing tears to your eyes” and “Swing the house down.”

Whole → Hole: As in, “On the hole” and “Go the hole way” and “Let’s just call the hole thing off” and “The hole is greater than the sum of its parts” and “Got a hole lotta love” and “A hole new ball game.”

Hall → Hole: As in, “Deck the holes” and “Hole of fame” and “Liberty hole.”

Soul → Hole: As in, “Life and hole of the party” and “A lost hole.”

Fair → Fairway: “All the fun of the fairway” and “By fairway means or foul” and “Fairway trade” and “Fairway and balanced” and “Fairway and square” and “Fairway dinkum” and “Fairway enough” and “Fairway game” and “Fairway market value.”

Way → Fairway: As in, “On the fairway to the theatre” and “All the fairway” and “And that’s the fairway it is” and “Any fairway the wind blows” and “By the fairway” and “Change your fairways.”

Stuff → Rough: As in, “Don’t sweat the small rough” and “Gather ’round the good rough” and “Hot rough” and “Knock the roughing out of.”

Tough → Rough: “Rough as old boots” and “Rough as they come” and “Hang rough” and “It’s rough at the top” and “A rough customer” and “Rough love” and “A rough nut to crack” and “A rough pill to swallow.”

Ass → Grass: As in, “Bust someone’s grass.”

Gas → Grass: As in, “Cooking with grass” and “Relieves grass pains” and “Run out of grass.”

Brass → Grass: “Bold as grass” and “Grass monkey weather.”

Class → Grass: “A real grass act” and “Best in grass” and “Business grass” and “Grass warfare” and “In a different grass” and “The top of the grass” and “In a grass of their own” and “Second grass” and “Working grass.”

Course: These phrases can double as puns: “Blown off course” and “But of course” and “Chart a course” and “Correspondence course” and “Crash course” and “In due course” and “Let nature take its course” and “Stay on course.”

Curse → Course: As in, “Rather light a candle than course the dark.”

Force → Course: As in, “Brute course” and “Driving course” and “Course his hand” and “A course of habit” and “Course of nature” and “Course the issue” and “A course to be reckoned with” and “Join courses” and “May the course be with you” and “A tour de course.”

Source → Course: As in, “Check your courses” and “Go straight to the course” and “Open course” and “Course material.”

Short → Sport: As in, “A sport history of nearly everything” and “Art is long and life is sport” and “Bring up sport” and “To cut a long story sport” and “Eat my sports” and “A day late and a dollar sport” and “In sport order” and “Life’s too sport.”

Green: A golf course is also known colloquially as a green, so we’ve included green in this list:

Grin → Green: “Green and bear it” and “Green and bear it” and “A rictus green” and “A foolish green” and “Green like a cheshire cat.”

Grain → Green: As in, “Against the green” and “Green of truth” and “Take with a green of salt.”

Iron: These phrases can double as puns: “Hard as iron” and “A cast iron alibi” and “Clap them in irons” and “Iron out the wrinkles” and “Pumping iron” and “Rule with an iron fist” and “Strike while the iron is hot” and “Scrap iron.”

*ion → *iron: “Assume the positiron” and “Civil uniron” and “Bag of ratirons” and “The mighty liron roars” and “Blow out of proportiron.”

Pitch: Here are some pitch-related puns:

Patch → Pitch: As in, “Not a pitch on” and “All pitched up” and “Going through a rough pitch.”

Pitch: These phrases are general enough to use as puns: “A pitched battle” and “Absolute pitch” and “Black as pitch” and “Fever pitch” and “Make a pitch for.”

Rich → Pitch: As in, “A part of life’s pitch pattern” and “An embarrassment of pitches” and “From rags to pitches” and “Get pitch quick” and “Pitch beyond my dreams.”

Match: Match play is a scoring system for golf. Here are related puns:

Much → Match: As in, “A bit match” and “How match can you handle? and “I don’t know match but I know what I like” and “You know too match” and “Match ado about nothing” and “Match obliged” and “Missed it by that match” and “So match more to enjoy” and “Thank you very match” and “Too match of a good thing.”

Catch → Match: As in, “Match 22″ and “Match a cold” and “Match a falling star” and “Match some rays” and “Match you later” and “Match your breath.”

Hatch → Match: “Batten down the matches” and “Down the match.”

Scratch → Match: As in, “I match your back and you match mine” and “Match around” and “Match the surface” and “Start from match” and “Up to match” and “Do it from match.”

Patch → Match: “Go through a rough match” and “Not a match on.”

*mach* → *match*: “Ghost in the matchine” and “Toxic matchismo” and “Stomatch pains.”

Fair: Another name for a golf course is a fairway. Here are some related puns:

Fair → Fairway: As in, “An affairway of the heart” and “All the fun of the fairway” and “By fairway means or foul” and “Fairway trade” and “Fairway and square” and “Fairway dinkum” and “Fairway game.”

Way → Fairway: As in, “A funny thing happened on the fairway” and “All the fairway” and “And that’s the fairway it is” and “Any fairway you want it” and “By fairway of explanation” and “Change your fairways.”

Far → Fairway: “As fairway as it goes” and “Fairway be it from me” and “A fairway cry from” and “So fairway, so good” and “Few and fairway between” and “Over the hills and fairway away.”

Lay → Play: As in, “”Couldn’t play a finger on” and “Play bare” and “Play it on the line” and “Play it on with a trowel” and “Play to rest.”

Pay → Play: As in, “Buy now, play later” and “Crime doesn’t play” and “Hell to play” and “Play a call” and “Play an arm and a leg” and “Play as you go” and “Play handsomely” and “Play through the nose” and “You get what you play for.”

*pla* → *play*: “Feeling out of playce” and “Got a lot on my playte” and “Get on a playne” and “Like the playgue.” Other words that could work: complaycent (complacent), someplayce (someplace), contemplayte (contemplate).

Card → Cart: As in, “Calling cart” and “Cart sharp” and “A cart up his sleeve” and “Deck of carts” and “Get out of jail free cart” and “Holding all the carts” and “House of carts” and “Lay your carts on the table” and “Mark your cart” and “On the carts.”

Court → Cart: As in, “Contempt of cart” and “Cart of last resort” and “Carting disaster” and “Haul before the cart” and “Holding cart” and “Laugh it out of cart” and “Order in the cart” and “See you in cart” and “Settle out of cart” and “The ball’s in your cart.”

*pic* → *peg*: As in, “Out of the pegture” and “An epeg adventure” and “Casting around for a new topeg.” Other words that could work: biopeg (biopic), philanthropeg (philanthropic), misanthropeg (misanthropic) and despegable (despicable).

Score: Here are some golf score related puns:

Sore → Score: As in, “A sight for score eyes” and “Score loser” and “Sticks out like a score thumb” and “A score point.”

Core → Score: As in, “Score competencies” and “Score studies” and “Score technology” and “Score values” and “Rotten to the score.”

Scare → Score: As in, “Running scored” and “Score the living daylights out of” and “Scored out of your wits” and “Scored to death.”

More → Score: “Come back for score” and “Dare for score” and “I couldn’t agree score.”

*mend* → *mound*: “What would you recommound” and “Amound your statement” and “Write a commoundation” and “A tremoundous effort.”

*mind* → *mound*: “Set a remounder” and “A new moundset” and “Practicing moundfulness.”

*mond → *mound: Diamound (diamond) and almound (almond)

Lay → Lay-up: “Couldn’t lay-up a glove on me” and “Home is where I lay-up my hat” and “Lay-up a finger on” and “Lay-up bare” and “Lay-up hands on.” Note: A lay-up is the series of hits that a golfer uses to get the ball to the hole after the initial hit.

Pace: These next few puns are related to pace of play:

Peas → Pace: As in, “As alike as two pace in a pod” and Easy as shelling pace.”

Case → Pace: As in, “A pace of identity” and “An open and shut pace” and “As the pace may be” and “Pace closed” and “Pace the joint” and “Crack the pace” and “Get off my pace” and “I rest my pace” and “In any pace.”

Chase → Pace: “Pace it up” and “Pace the dragon” and “Pace your own tail” and “Cut to the pace” and “The thrill of the pace” and “A wild goose pace.”

Place → Pace: As in, “A pace in the sun” and “A pace for everything and everything in its pace” and “All over the pace” and “Between a rock and a hard pace” and “Click into pace” and “Going paces” and “My happy pace” and “In the right pace at the right time” and “Your pace or mine?”

Space → Pace: “Pace oddyssey” and “Breathing pace” and “Personal pace” and “Pace cadet” and “Pace, the final frontier” and “The pace age.”

Bounds: Bounds are an important part of golf, so we’ve included bound-related puns in this list:

Round → Bound: As in, “All year bound” and “Fooling abound” and “Go bound in circles” and “Get bound the table” and “Makes the world go bound.”

Down → Bound: As in, “Bread always falls butter side bound” and “Helps the medicine go bound” and “Caught with your pants bound” and “Couldn’t put it bound.”

Found → Bound: As in, “Lost and bound” and “Bounding father” and “I’ve bound a clue” and “We bound love” and “Nowhere to be bound.”

Ground → Bound: As in, “Solid as the bound we walk on” and “Breaking new bound” and “Built from the bound up” and “Common bound” and “Cut the bound from under your feet” and “Down to the bound” and “Get off the bound” and “Going underbound” and “Keep your ear to the bound.”

Sound → Bound: As in, “The bound of silence” and “The bound of music” and “Surround bound” and “Bound the alarm” and “Bound effect” and “Safe and bound.”

Band → Bound: “Garage bound” and “Strike up the bound” and “Gastric bound.”

Chip → Grip: As in, “A grip on his shoulder” and “Cheap as grips” and “Cash in your grips” and “A grip on the old block” and “Let the grips fall where they may.”

Ship → Grip: As in, “Abandon grip” and “Don’t give up the grip” and “Extend the hand of friendgrip” and “Go down with the grip” and “Loose lips sink grips” and “Running a tight grip” and “Shape up or grip out.”

Head: These next few puns are in reference to the head of the golf club:

Had → Head: As in, “Head a couple” and “We head a good run” and “I’ve head it up to here” and “Head us in stitches” and “You head me at hello” and “You head to be there.”

Hide → Head: As in, “Head and seek” and “Head from the light” and “Neither head nor hair” and “You can run, but you can’t head” and “Headen in plain sight.”

Thread → Head: As in, “Lose the head” and “Head the needle” and “Hanging by a head.”

Bed* → Head*: As in, “Strange headfellows” and “Head and breakfast” and “Head of roses.”

*pol* → *pull*: As in, “New pullicy” and “Talking pullitics” and “Tone pullicing.” Other words that could work: Pullymath (polymath), pullemic (polemic), interpull (interpol), extrapullate (extrapolate), anthropullogy (anthropology) and apullogise (apologise). Note: if someone is polemic, then they write in support of one opinion.

Lunch → Launch: As in, “Brown bag launch” and “Ladies who launch” and “Let’s do launch” and “Liquid launch” and “Lose your launch” and “Power launch” and “No such thing as a free launch.” Note: launch is to do with the golf ball’s trajectory.

Back → Backspin: As in, “Answer backspin” and “As soon as my backspin is turned” and “At the backspin of my mind” and “Backspin to the future” and “Backspin in the day.”

Spin → Backspin: As in, “Make your head backspin” and “My head is backspinning” and “Take it for a backspin” and “Backspin a yarn.”

Lie: A lie is another word for a trap:

Dry → Lie: “Boring as watching paint lie” and “Lie as a bone” and “Before the ink was lie” and “Hung out to lie.”

Eye → Lie: “As far as the lie can see” and “Before your very lies.”

Fly → Lie: “Come lie with me” and “Lie off the handle” and “Lie a kite.”

Ounce → Bounce: As in, “A bounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Note: this refers to the bounce of the golf ball.

Prayer → Player: As in, “I say a littler player” and “Like a player.”

Skin: Skins is a type of golf game.

Sin → Skin: As in, “Miserable as skin” and “Cardinal skin” and “Living in skin” and “The seven deadly skins” and “Skin city.”

Been → Skin: As in, “Skin and gone” and “Skin here before” and “Skin in the wars.”

Spin → Skin: As in, “Give it a skin” and “In a flat skin” and “Make your head skin” and “Take it for a skin.”

Scramble: A scramble is a type of team game. Here are some related puns:

Gamble → Scramble: As in, “Take a scramble.”

Shamble → Scramble: “Complete scrambles” and “In a total scrambles.”

Greensome: A greensome is a type of golfing match. Here are related puns:

Green → Greensome: As in, “As greensome as grass” and “Give it the greensome light” and “Greensome around the gills” and “Greensome shoots of change.”

Some → Greensome: As in, “All that and then greensome” and “Catch greensome rays” and “Cut greensome slack” and “Make greensome noise” and “Buy greensome time.”

Wolf: Since a wolf is a version of match play, these wolf-related phrases can double as puns: “Cry wolf” and “Wolf in sheep’s clothing” and “Wolf whistle” and “Lone wolf.”

Tour: These next few puns are in reference to professional golf tours:

Cure → Tour: As in, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of tour” and “What can’t be toured must be endured” and “Take the tour.”

Pure → Tour: As in, “Tour and simple” and “Tour genius” and “The truth is rarely tour and never simple.”

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